Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onUnloading Potatoes and Snow Clearing of Moscow’s Streets and Railway Tracks[1]

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1.ThePeople’s Commissariat for Food to be instructed
within three days to draft a decision for resumption of the potato campaign
and submit it to the

C.P.C[2]

2.Burdukov+ Kamenev, Dzerzhinsky and Kursky to be
instructed to present information concerning the number of adult and
healthy men, their oft-work hours and their possible employment for urgent
jobs in the city, and a draft decision on their employment.

3.TheVecheka to be instructed to appoint a responsible
and experienced investigator belonging to the Party to study the material
relating to the unsatisfactory state of labour service organisation in
Moscow both among the workers and office staffs.

Reportto the C.P.C, to be made by Dzerzhinsky or his
deputy within four days.

4.ThePeople’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs to be
instructed to take more energetic steps to implement snow-clearing
compulsory service and to report on this to the C.P,C. within three

days.[3]

[1]Thisdraft was written at a meeting of the C.P.C. during the discussion
of the report by A. A. Burdukov, Chief of Moscow Military District and the
Moscow City Garrison, concernin the unloading of potatoes at the Moscow
Railway Junction an snow clearing on Moscow’s streets and railway
tracks. Lenin’s draft was endorsed by the C.P.C.This draft was written at a
meeting of the C.P.C. during the discussion of the report by
A. A. Burdukov, Chief of Moscow Military District and the Moscow City
Garrison, concernin the unloading of potatoes at the Moscow Railway
Junction an snow clearing on Moscow’s streets and railway tracks. Lenin’s
draft was endorsed by the C.P.C.

[2]Thefollowing decision was adopted at the meeting of the C.P.C. on
January 31, 1920: “Resumption of the potato campaign shall be postponed
until the spring when, simultaneously with the seed campaign, the People’s
Commissariat for Food shall undertake in the course of April and May 1920
to satisfy the requirements of Moscow in food potatoes to the amount of
560,000 poods” (Central Party Archives, Institute of Marxism-Leninism of
the C.C., C.P.S.U.).

[3]Thereport on measures taken by the Commissariat for Internal Affairs
to implement compulsory service in connection with snow clearing wag made
to the C.P.C. on January 31, 1920. The Council passed a decision to set up
a commission under the chairmanship of F. E. Dzerzhinsky which was to be
made responsible for the conduct of this business.